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MENA Insurance Pulse 2017 MENA Insurance Pulse 2017 An Annual Market Survey Lead sponsor Prepared by Lead sponsor Contributing sponsors MENA Insurance Pulse 2017 For more information about the report, please contact: Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company Dufourstr. 24 CH-8008 Zurich Switzerland Telephone: +41 44 256 10 80 [email protected] www.schanz-alms.com To download a copy of the report, please visit: www.pulse.schanz-alms.com © 2017 Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, framed, modified, sold, transmitted or otherwise distributed in any way, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Contents Foreword 4 Foreword Qatar Financial Centre 5 Methodology 7 Summary of Key Findings 9 Key Pulse Readings 11 Market Overview 13 Survey Results 29 1. The overall perspective: Strengths, weaknesses, 29 opportunities and threats of MENA insurance markets 2. General insurance market status and outlook 37 3. Lines of business-specific prospects 47 4. Key market trends and drivers 53 From our partners Insurance matters to Qatar’s economic development and transformation 20 The irresistible rise of InsurTech in the Middle East 22 Global energy outlook and its implications for the MENA region 24 Peak Re’s position in the MENA region and its opportunities going forward 26 Foreword We are pleased to present the 5th edition of MENA Insurance Pulse. This annual research initiative is aimed at offering an authoritative overview of the current state and future prospects of the region’s US$ 54 billion primary insurance markets. It paints a comprehensive and quantitative picture of the current market sentiment, tracked over time. Our regular readers and interviewees will notice that we have renamed the former MENA Insurance Barometer to MENA Insurance Pulse. For the first time, we no longer publish this research on behalf of a single sponsor but as a Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company report, drawing on the support of altogether six sponsors led by the Qatar Financial Centre. The renaming to MENA Insurance Pulse is meant to reflect this change. However, the publication’s remit, methodology and quality benchmarks will remain unchanged. The online version can be found on www.pulse.schanz-alms.com. Through the MENA Insurance Pulse, the contributing sponsors demonstrate their commitment to improving the transparency of the regional market place. In addition, their support ensures the continued availability of an important benchmark for strategic and operational decision-making. The 2017 edition draws on in-depth interviews with senior executives of 40 regional and international insurance and reinsurance companies, intermediaries and trade associations operating in the Middle East and North Africa. We believe that the key methodological strengths of the MENA Insurance Pulse lie in its comprehensiveness, diversity and diligence. Our qualitative interview approach enables us to probe deeper, obtaining clarifying responses from the participating executives. In addition, by including both global and regional players, as well as generalists and specialists, we have been able to collate a broad yet nuanced picture of the market place. We would like to extend our deepest thanks to all sponsors and interviewees who have supported this research project, which is designed to benefit the MENA insurance market as a whole. We hope that you will enjoy reading the 2017 edition of MENA Insurance Pulse and benefit from its findings. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schanz Henner Alms Chairman and Partner, Partner, Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company 4 Foreword Qatar Financial Centre It is with great pleasure that the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) co-presents to you the 5th edition of the annual MENA Insurance Pulse. We are proud to have served as the lead sponsor of this year’s research report, in continuation of our previous role as the sole sponsor. Through the Pulse, the QFC demonstrates its commitment to the insurance industry, which accounts for an increasing share of the region’s economy. This is particularly true of Qatar where insurers are set to play a key role in accompanying the transition to a knowledge-based and diversified economy as well as the creation of deeper and broader domestic capital markets. Our support of the Pulse is a natural extension of our continued hosting of Multaqa Qatar, one of the region’s leading event franchises for senior risk and insurance executives. We hope you will enjoy reading this report and benefit from its findings. Yousuf Al-Jaida CEO & Board Member, Qatar Financial Centre 5 «Transparency concerning the most recent developments in insurance is key to benchmark the progress of our sector with those in other markets, learn from best practice and guide our decisions. To the QFC the MENA Insurance Pulse is an important tool, which provides us with this kind of information in a concise fashion.» Yousuf Al-Jaida, CEO & Board Member, Qatar Financial Centre 6 Methodology The findings of this report are based on in-depth and structured telephone or face-to-face interviews with executives representing 40 regional and international (re) insurance companies, intermediaries and trade associations. The interviews were conducted by Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company, a Zurich-based research, communication and business development consultancy, in December 2016 and January 2017. The interviewees that participated in the survey were from the following companies and organisations based in the respective countries: Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company, UAE Africa Re, Egypt Al Wathba National Insurance Company, UAE American International Group (AIG), UAE Arab Insurance Group (Arig), Bahrain Chedid Re, Lebanon Damana Saudi Arabian Insurance Company, Bahrain Dubai International Financial Centre Insurance & Reinsurance Association, UAE Emirates Insurance Association, UAE Emirates Insurance Company, UAE Federation of Afro-Asian Insurers & Reinsurers (FAIR), Egypt Gulf Insurance Federation, UAE Hannover Re, Bahrain Kay International AMEA, UAE Kuwait Insurance Company, Kuwait Lloyd’s, UAE Marsh MENA, UAE MIG Holding, Bahrain Munich Re, Germany Munich Re Underwriting Agents, UAE National General Insurance Company, UAE Noor Takaful, UAE Oman Insurance Company, UAE Orient Insurance Group, UAE Qatar General Insurance & Reinsurance Company, Qatar Qatar Insurance Company, Qatar PartnerRe, Switzerland Peak Re, Hong Kong SAR, China Saudi Re, Saudi Arabia SCOR SE, France SEIB Insurance & Reinsurance Company, Qatar Société Centrale de Réassurance, Morocco Solidarity Group, Bahrain Swiss Re, Switzerland Tokio Marine, UAE Trust International Group, Jordan Trust Re, Bahrain United Insurance Company, Yemen Vision Insurance, Oman Zaris & Partners, Lebanon 7 «Awareness and penetration of personal insurance in the MENA region continues to improve, particularly with the introduction of new digital distribution channels and banc­ assurance. This provides an opportunity, from which both insurance companies and clients can benefit.» Michael S. Jensen, Managing Director MENA Zone, AIG 8 Summary of Key Findings Despite the continued economic slowdown and geopolitical instability, the MENA insurance markets can be considered resilient. 76% of executives polled expect regional premiums to outgrow GDP over the next 12 months. Survey participants continue to be particularly bullish about personal lines business, which benefits from expanding compulsory insurance requirements as well as pricing support from regulatory action. Even though the executives anticipate further economic headwinds and fiscal tightening, price adequacy in commercial lines, especially in property business, has improved, too, mainly in response to more frequent fire losses. Participants consider the region’s strong direct insurance market growth as its most important current strength, followed by a relatively moderate natural catastrophe exposure and improved regulatory regimes. The region’s low insurance penetration is considered the key future opportunity offered by the market. The ratio of premiums to GDP is a mere quarter of the global average. In addition, expanded or more rigorously enforced compulsory schemes in medical and motor insurance rank second among future opportunities. Digitisation is the third most frequently mentioned opportunity because of its potential to both bring down operating and acquisition expenses as well as to make insurance products more appealing and meaningful. The Pulse found that 54% and 86% of executives polled view current prices in MENA commercial and personal lines business, respectively, as being at or above the average of the past three years – a major improvement in sentiment, against 11% and 74%, respectively, in the previous year. 70% and 89%, respectively, expect commercial and personal lines rates to remain stable or increase further over the next 12 months, which compared with the previous year, indicates an improved outlook for commercial lines and slightly deteriorating expectations for personal lines. Commercial and regulatory pressure for higher or at least stable prices is expected to continue. Only 33% – virtually unchanged from the previous year – of respondents expect market concentration to increase over the next 12 months. The relatively comfortable capitalisation of domestic companies in conjunction with family ownership continue to present major obstacles to mergers and acquisitions. However, going forward, it will become more difficult for domestic insurers to raise the additional capital potentially
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